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Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year I sell a story. It is acclaimed. I am a genius in the making. Thank God for this Negro literary renaissance. Long may it flourish!

Source: Sweetie May, a character based on Zora Neale Hurston, Infants of the Spring.
-- Wallace Thurman, (Jul 1 1902-1934), US journalist, dramatist, literary editor; His satiric portrait of the Harlem Renaissance period, Infants of the Spring, was perhaps more effective as an acerbic comment than as a novel.

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